The Hollow Hills Summary

The novel begins the day after Arthur is conceived. Merlin awakes after being thrown from his horse to find that Duke Gorlois of Tintagel was killed in a fight. However, Merlin knows the fight occurred only because King Uther Pendragon wanted to sleep with Duchess Ygraine of Tintagel. Uther used Merlin and his “magic” to slip past the guards and to get Ygraine to sleep with him. Merlin has the...

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Mary Stewart Biographies (1)

Mary Stewart's writing career divides into two distinct parts. In her first period, according to Kay Mussell in the St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, Stewart "wrote a remarkable series of ...
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